Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
CATULLUSMy lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
More Catullus Quotes
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What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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We see not our own backs.
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
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